Quotes from Julia Cameron

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.